The Detention Center
Archuleta County Detention Facility
- Operated byArchuleta County Sheriff's Office, Detention Division (Detention Facility Commander Edward Williams, under Sheriff Mike LeRoux)
- Jail address125 Harman Park Drive, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 (970-264-8474)
- Beds / year built / costNot found — no facility statistics published
Source: Archuleta County Sheriff's Office — Detention · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mike LeRoux
- Runs the jailYes — the Archuleta County Sheriff's Office Detention Division operates the Archuleta County Detention Facility
- How the office is filledElected sheriff, per Colorado's standard county sheriff model
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Archuleta County Sheriff's Office — Administration · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado's District Court and County Court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. They are initially appointed by the Governor through a judicial nominating commission and subsequently face retention elections.
6th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- A. Nathaniel Baca
- Justin P. Fay
- Reid Stewart
Archuleta County Court Judge
- Anthony Edwards
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Detention page publishes an online bond-payment link (govpaynow.com) and Colorado's statutory bond-rights language, but no phone/video/commissary dollar rates were found — only that inmates may purchase commissary items and that deposits can be made via cidnet.net.
- Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners — three districts: Warren Brown (D1), John Ranson (D2), Veronica Medina (D3).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Archuleta County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered